Holder and extinguisher of burning cigarettes



A. D. ALLMAN 2,942,608

HOLDER AND EXTINGUISHER 0F BURNING CIGARETTES June 28, 1960 Filed Sept, 22, 1958 FIGURE 2.

FIGURE FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 3.

INVENTOR.

ARV EL D. ALLMAN FIGURE 5.

6 ATTORNEY United States Patent HOLDER AND EXTINGUISHER OF BURNING CIGARETTES Arvel Delbert'Allman, 4007 E. 53rd St., Kansas City, Mo.

Filed Sept. 22, 1958, Ser. No. 762,487 1 Claim. (Cl. 131256) This invention relates to an improvement in a holder and extinguisher for burning cigarettes, and is adapted to be independently supported uprightly in substantially any ash tray.

Heretofore some holders for cigarettes have been formed in ash trays and contribute to the burning of cigarettes, cigarette butts and a smoking atmosphere within a room therefor. 0ther types of cigarette holders are built in an ash tray for enclosing the burning cigarette in a compartment.

An object of this invention is to provide an upright tube with a flared base adapted to be removably placed within an ash tray and receive two or more burning cigarette butts manually inserted into the upper end thereof, a flexible resistance member to retain the cigarette butts within the upright tube until a thrust by another cigarette is manually forced into the upper end of the tube, thereby extinguishing the upper smoldering cigarette butt by the adjacent cigarette butt, and an opening formed in the flared base to dislodge the lower cigarette butt into a receptacle for an ash tray.

An advantage of the upright tube holder for cigarettes is that the smoldering or burning cigarettes are extinguished quickly when placed within the tube, and the tube is a means of controlling or reducing the smoke within a room therefore.

Another advantage of the upright tube holder for cigarettes is that it may be conveniently placed in a pocket or luggage case for a traveling person to use in combination with a conventional ash tray usually provided in hotel rooms, ofiices, stores and homes.

The preferred structure of the holder and extinguisher of burning cigarettes is fully illustrated in the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the improved holder and extinguisher.

Figure 2 is a sectional view taken on line 22 of Figure 3 with the cigarette removed therefrom, one stirrup and the flared base being omitted.

Figure 3 is a view in elevation illustrating the holder and extinguisher of burning cigarettes wherein a burning cigarette is illustrated depending from a stirrup.

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on lines 4-4 of Fig ure 3 wherein cigarette butts are illustrated held in the tube by the flexible resistance member.

Figure 5 is a detail view illustrating one of the stirrups for holding burning cigarettes.

The upright tube 7 has a flared top portion 8 for the entrance of a cigarette or cigarette butt 9. The tube 7 is slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of a cigarette. The length of the tube 7 is sufiicient to receive at least two cigarette butts 9 and 10 above the flexible resistance member 11.

The flexible resistance member 11 is preferably a wire having a spiral shape and loosely depending from the position of a hole 12 of the tube 7. A straight portion of the wire 13 of the resistance member 11 is positioned within the tube 7 and the balance thereof is mostly exterior and extends into one of the openings 14 between the legs 15. The exterior portion of the flexible resistance member 11 acts as a Weight to exert a very slight Patented June 28, 1960 pressure on the straight portion 13 thereof against a cigarette butt 16 to retain it as illustrated in broken lines in Figure 4.

The tube 7 is flared at the portion 17 starting from a position located slightly below the hole 12 thereof and continuing to the lower end of the legs 15 or flared base to support the tube in an upright position. The legs are preferably formed by splitting the tubing longitudinally and bending the divided portions of the tube into the flared legs 15.

The support members 18 are formed of small strips or bars located horizontally on opposite sides of the tubing 7 and extend suificiently to form yokes 19. Stirrups 20 are pivoted at 21 in the yokes 19 and are adapted to receive and hold the upper portion of a cigarette therein. The support members 18 clamp on the tubing 7 with bolts or welding 22.

It is obvious that cigarette butts may be manually inserted into the upper end of the tubing 7. The first butt will drop to the illustrated position of cigarette butt 10 in Figure 4. The next cigarette butt Will fall to the position illustrated by cigarette butt 9. Cigarette 9 for example will have the burning end thereof extinguished by cigarette 10 butted thereagainst. Another cigarette may be forced into the position illustrated by cigarette butt 9 and the lower cigarette will be passed to the position illustrated by cigarette butt 16 held in position by flexible resistance member 11. More cigarette butts may be manually forced into the tube 7 and the lower cigarette butts will fall to the ash tray 23. The openings 14 between the legs 15 will allow the cigarette butts to spread beyond the legs 15 and over the ash tray 23.

If a person lights a cigarette and desires to place it aside for a time the cigarette is placed in one of the stirrups 20 as illustrated by cigarette 24 with the burning end thereof in the uppermost position and the cigarette depended with the stirrup 20 pivoted at 21.

With the cigarette 24in the depended position the burning portion thereof is positioned just above the stirrup which is adapted to slightly squeeze the cigarette and cause a smothering action tending to extinguish the cigarette when the burning portion continues downwardly to the stirrup. The dependent position of the cigarette causes the smoke to rise upwardly and prevents the nicotine therein from travelling through the cigarette thus retaining a sweet fresh condition of the remaining portion of the cigarette for future use.

What I claim, as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A cigarette holder and extinguisher of burning cigarettes comprising: an upright tube, said upright tube being slightly larger in diameter than the diameter of a cigarette and adapted to permit the passage of a cigarette therethrough, one end of said upright tube having a. flared portion adapted to guide a cigarette to the entrance of said upright tube, the opposite end portion of said upright tube being divided into longitudinal plural segments and flared for support legs, a member, said member depending from a mid-portion of said upright tube and having a portion extending into said upright tube adapted to resist the free passage of a cigarette through said upright tube until a manual pressure is exerted on the cigarette to force the cigarette to pass said member.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,659,377 Fisher Nov. 17, 1953 FOREIGN PATENTS 736,575 France Sept. 20, 1932 

